A Good Day In Hell - The Official ILM Track-By-Track EAGLES Listening Thread

it's no funk#49 (james gang or killdozer)

some great comments on the youtube version of the james gang track

the drum break on funk#49 (o.g. version) is insane

Eagle in the wild: Henley's "Not Enough Love in the World" playing in the supermarket, broken up at intervals by increasingly cranky calls for someone to come up to the front end to bag

(Felder sheepishly shuffles out to the registers to bag)

CUT TO

EXTERIOR. PARKING LOT. GLENN FREY eggs Felder's car, laughing hysterically.

"The Long Run"

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/eagles_boat.jpg

http://youtu.be/NTe82e03xVI

joe walsh 4ever

FINALLY

Their best single; for once the smugness is funny. I love the Felder organ, the mocking Walsh slide.

plus, you'll notice it doesn't drag like someone pulling a dead horse. it only took them 80% of their career to figure out the whole tempo thing.

this would have had like 2 more minutes of outro if it had been on one of the earlier records

I know: I was shocked this clocked in under four minutes. It's so punchy and full of attitude, and even though it's the product of a group of guys who hated eachother's guts by this point, it sounds like a strong ensemble recording: maybe the underlying tension finally woke up them up in the studio. Henley sings it like "yeah, I *am* an asshole," and it's a better vocal for it.

I was in my 20s, at least, before I figured out he was saying, "Did you do it for spite" instead of "Did you do it for Spike," like some dude named Spike.

& was this the Eagles throwing down the gauntlet to their critics? "We're gonna outlast 'em all, man, just watch." As it's 35 years later, they're still touring arenas, and we've spent months talking about these clowns, perhaps they were right.

even Frey's backup vocals work.

Love the un-ostentatious, no-nonsense drum intro: dat-thud-thud-WHACK-WHACK. Works perfectly. Also, the nice little syncopations in the rhythm guitar. These guys really were good at the little arrangement details, even if it often added up to a lot of nothing.

god, even their guitars sound like assholes in this song

These are the Eagles I can listen to without flinching too much. Good beat, Timothy knows his chops obviously, love the organ.

When I worked for the sportstalk radio station, our commercial spot blocks had to be timed to the second, otherwise you'd come back to the the network on the last four-digits of one of spots. Tough to do since ads run 29 seconds or 31 seconds, and if you laid enough of them down that were short, you'd be out five or six seconds. So I sometimes used the intro to this song as a spot fill. just a bump-bum-bumm-bump-BUMP out of nowhere.

Song doesn't stop on a dime or anything, but I do like that one part around 2:45 where they take it back to the outro on a heel. Maybe there was a splice in there or something, but I bet it was fun to play live.

We're finally into the Eagles era that I remember living through. I'll probably get into that when we play the Frey song, but suffice to say, our school's mascot was THE EAGLES and the teens in that small town hung out at a place called THE EAGLE'S NEST.

GLENN: We’d had the idea for about six or seven years. The title of the song was apropos, and it seemed to be a good title for the album — let’s see who’ll last. I think it was a lot about longevity, and it was also about me just lovin’ Tyrone Davis’ record “Turning Point.” We had done some slicker production like the Philly sound, but “Long Run” was more like a tribute to Memphis with the slide guitars playing the parts of the horns.

DON: It was a long and difficult album. Everything was catching up to us. Too much pressure, too much worry, too much traveling, too many controlled substances, too much paranoia and infighting. I missed having a normal life. Glenn and I were starting to grow distant. Everything was pulling apart — and we were writing about longevity. [thoughtful pause] Yeah, well, even if we weren’t living it, we were always able to idealize it in a song about the way we’d like to be — the way we’d like to be perceived. That song may have been a message to our critics. It may have been a message from Glenn to me or me to Glenn. It could be taken all kinds of different ways. Could be a message to a girl — a long-departed lover. But, again, it was built on that foundation of Glenn’s rhythm guitar playing [sings part]. Always that foundation. So, here we are some 25 years later — 32 years total — still going strong. The Long Run, indeed.

so, col, you're right

lol @ yt screengrabs

http://i.imgur.com/KR6dqu8.png

http://youtu.be/UuWpqmTR2uw

http://i.imgur.com/laks1.gif

the last #1 album of the Seventies, right? which seems appropriate (I remember my dad got this and "Tusk" around the same time and was disappointed w/ both of them)

OOOH FA FA FA FIND OUT

Knocked In Through the Out Door out of the No.1 spot. Two of the biggest bands of the 70s and their swan songs fighting to be the last of the decade.

I wonder sometimes if Joe misses his buddy.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfstm1_eagles-the-long-run_music

Meanwhile Tusk never hit #1.

I can't argue with any of the insightful, positive comments any of you have made, but boy I just do not like this song. It grates on me in what I now recognize is a very Eagles kind of way. This makes it even worse: Knocked In Through the Out Door out of the No.1 spot. I mean, I wouldn't go to the mat for In Through the Out Door in an argument about best Led Zeppelin albums but it's a damn sight better than The Long Run (and, spoiler alert, I have a lot of good things to say about tomorrow's song).

i like four songs on inthroughtheoutdoor more than any eagles song.

Fuuuck, just thought of what an Eagles Mexican Reggae version of Fool in the Rain would sound like.

Just to be sure, I played "In the Evening" a few minutes. Yep, it's better.

Man that slide playing is slick

Coming into this I thought my own take on the eagles would be a good country rock band that sold out to fame & FM gold

But honestly they were a mediocre country rich band and their stuff like this was better

[thoughtful pause]

Obviously a lie. Don's never had one of these in his entire life. Should read [thoughtless pause].

OOOH FA FA FA FIND OUT

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, October 11, 2013 9:45 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, always found this unintentionally hilarious, like "Alright! Nighty-night!" on "Already Gone." Motherfuckers couldn't ad-lib for shit.

Good God, didn't the '70s teach them ANYTHING?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWPJx7sooR4

I unabashedly love this song AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT

Also weirdly the intro reminds me of Huey Lewis and the News 'If This is It', don't ask me why

^ I like that In the Long Run miles better than the Eagles In the Long Run xp

the two 'in the long run's are not in the same league AT ALL
that goes without saying
somewhere along the way
come a rainy day

Also weirdly the intro reminds me of Huey Lewis and the News 'If This is It', don't ask me why

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), F

OMIGOD I HAVE LONG THOUGH THIS TOO

or "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" – you expect the Eagles to go "oooh why don't you tune in and turn them up" after "In THE LOOOONG RUNN"

shared ancestry

I hope y'all know they had a great blueprint for today's song: http://youtu.be/ZTP322AhAdI (supposedly Seger's cover on Nine Tonight was done to give credit where it was due)

The Eagles' rip-o...homage is nice lightweight single. This is the album where they returned to making fine gas'n'go Friday night singles. It bops along nicely, and for once they're not too much out of their depth. The Houston shout-out is cool; Frey's wife at the time was a deb from Dallas, so that's probably where that came from (City rivalry yo).

That's interesting. I always thought that was a weird line. Debutantes? Houston? What?

Abstract dig at Rolling Stone critics.

I didn't know that Frey was married at the time: are you sure about that? that seems unlikely: more like whichever chick he was with and would cheat on at a moment's notice. I once was told by someone with firsthand knowledge that on tour in the early 70s, Frey went AWOL for several days, having holed up some place in the south with some chicks and tons of blow: they had to cancel shows cuz no one knew where he was.

I just A/B-ed the Tyrone Davis and Otis Clay cuts, and yeah, they totally ripped off the latter. While I am not on the "glenn is a jock asshole" bandwagon (fuily on board with "Don is a pompous, litigious pseud") perhaps he passive-aggressively but still bitch-assedly gives credit to the davis cut cuz people pointed out his xerox of Clay?

but yeah, this commences the best eagles rekkid. they don't like it, everyone sez they ran out of gas, and so of course it's gonna be the ILM fave. I can't wait to see what you think of two under-played gems, absolute marvels of elegant, creepy hypocrisy.

"Disco Strangler" is a horror but we'll get there soon enough.

"glenn is a jock asshole"

he's scottish?

never forget:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/ozeagle/Solo%20Years/RockHard.jpg

i was coming here to say i had never noticed, until this morning, how good a soul pastiche this was. then i listened to the otis clay song and, yeah, wow. pastiche is no longer the exact word that comes to mind.

but it works. it's a good single.

do Frey and Henley still drink? I'm curious about the bibulous habits of aging libertines.

I didn't know that Frey was married at the time: are you sure about that? that seems unlikely: more like whichever chick he was with and would cheat on at a moment's notice.

In To The Limit it's reported that Frey got married in the late '70s to a society girl from Dallas. However, in the text we don't learn her name or much about her other than she was a debutante and that Frey felt he was courting "an American Princess". Later on it's revealed that as part of his "cleaning up" in the '80s he divorced her and quickly wed a dancer from one of his videos, whom I presume he is still with. We don't get her name either, and Frey's wiki page has no "relationships/personal life" section. Instead, we get this:

Frey's first appearance as an actor in a commercial was for Pepsi with Miami Vice star Don Johnson. Another notable commercial campaign was the "Hard Rock in the 70s, Rock Hard in the 80s" gym campaign of 1988, which featured a photograph of a newly physically toned Frey contrasted with the famous Hotel California insert photograph. He even did a picture spread in Rolling Stone modeling ski wear, and a spread in Penthouse modeling sweaters.